Jihadi John Linked to London Street Gang

Suspected ISIS killer Jihadi John is linked to a gang that carried out violent street robberies in London to pay for terrorists to travel abroad, a friend of the ISIS figurehead told NBC News. The trio of armed muggers stalked victims on bicycles in London's affluent Belgravia district, according to the friend of Mohammed Emwazi. The three threatened victims with a Taser-style high-voltage stun gun and forced them to hand over watches and cell phones. Intelligence services also believe Emwazi was part of a whole network of supporters of terrorism, and that his upbringing in the west London district of Ladbroke Grove took him close to the fringes of society and put him in contact with others who had succumbed to the allure of radical Islam.

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